Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He carried a bottle of water from the River Mississippi with which , he said , he planned to baptise my breast as a sign of love . |
| 2 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 3 | Willy Brandt tried to present his policy as the natural continuation of Adenauer 's : he would reconcile Germany with the East in the same way as the old man had reconciled her with the West . |
| 4 | Cameron turned back into the house for his cloak and tried to order his thoughts as the last fogginess of sleep evaporated in his head . |
| 5 | For 20 years she tried to make her name as an actress . |
| 6 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 7 | It began as a faint glowing cloudiness that hung in the rafters of the attic , which was exactly the sort of phenomenon Cleo 's mother had described in the ghost stories she 'd told her daughter as a child . |
| 8 | But the prime minister failed to broaden his alliance as the former Communists of the Democratic party of the Left and the small Republican Party refused to join his administration . |
| 9 | In Dublin today Charlton will send out the Republic against Northern Ireland in an attempt to take the points that would virtually ensure participation in the World Cup finals next summer in Italy , a feat guaranteed to consolidate his status as a modern Irish hero . |
| 10 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 11 | There can be little doubt that , in the aftermath of the crisis of 1916–17 , Nizan gradually , irreversibly began to perceive his father as a loser ; a loser not through any fault of his own , other than a selfconfessed lack of bourgeois schooling and culture . |
| 12 | If she returned to share her burden as the ‘ Cleveland scapegoat ’ we could all make progress with this very serious issue of child health . |
| 13 | The novel then began to stake its claim as a genre which could give insight into the human psyche that no news broadcast or film ever could . |
| 14 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 15 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 16 | Charles , advised by the Queen , decided to develop his career as a Naval officer by going to sea . |
| 17 | Alex decided to follow his father as a naval lawyer , and was accepted at Trinity College , Cambridge , to read law as a student sponsored by the service . |
| 18 | To support himself and his family , now on the edge of penury , he urgently needed to resume his occupation as a freelance journalist specializing in Middle Eastern affairs , and for that , he had to be able to travel . |
| 19 | Of all the host countries , there is the greatest possibility in Syria , as in 1949 , that the Palestine refugee population could be resettled and persuaded to accept its lot as a permanent part of the host country . |
| 20 | Although Egypt offered its full support to Iraq , it still managed to assert its role as a regional moderator and as the main link between the Arab states , Israel and the West ; thus , during a visit to Baghdad on April 7 , Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak widened the debate by calling for the mass elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . |
| 21 | In later years China sought to present her credentials as a regional power and encourage an interpretation of neutralisation which would be directed against the USSR as an external power and would underline the illegitimacy of Soviet support for Vietnamese actions in Indochina . |
| 22 | Rune had given her a sharp glance as she replied , but then appeared to accept her question as an affirmative , as he took her firmly by the arm to lead her into his chosen restaurant . |
| 23 | What was really remarkable was that although people did change their ground as a result of English pressure , Henry VIII and Somerset never actually dispelled all their support in Scotland . |
| 24 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 25 | Afterwards he had completed his training as a fighter pilot , performing so well that he was assigned to take an instructors ' course with the Navy at San Diego . |
| 26 | Since the age of seventeen , Margaret had regarded her body as a tradeable commodity ; she saw a fortnightly meeting between the sheets with an elderly bookmaker as an investment , a means to an end . |
| 27 | A favourite outing was to the nearby medieval castle of Pierrefonds , which the Emperor had given his wife as a present and which was being restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 28 | Though he continued to profess his patriotism as an Englishman and refuted the suggestion that he wanted to imitate Hitler , it was in Germany alone that his hope seemed capable of embodiment . |
| 29 | George Morales , another convicted cocaine smuggler , states that the CIA had exploited his indictment as a drug lord to extort from him planes , pilots and a $3 million cash donation to the Contras . |
| 30 | Before Dom Pérignon had made his name as a great winemaker , the effects of sparkling Champagne had achieved sufficient significance in England to merit the occasional mention , as the following verse from The Man of Mode , written by Sir George Etherege in 1676 , indicates : |